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Tripping :: Tripping (n.) The loosing of an anchor from the ground by means of its cable or buoy rope.

Levitation :: Levitation (n.) The act or process of making buoyant.

Buoying :: Buoying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Buo.

Waft :: Waft (v. i.) To be moved, or to pass, on a buoyant medium; to float..

Buoyant :: Buoyant (v. t. & i.) Having the quality of rising or floating in a fluid; tending to rise or float; as, iron is buoyant in mercury..

Upbuoyance :: Upbuoyance (n.) The act of buoying up; uplifting.

Buoy :: Buoy (n.) A float; esp. a floating object moored to the bottom, to mark a channel or to point out the position of something beneath the water, as an anchor, shoal, rock, etc..

Float :: Float (n.) To rest on the surface of any fluid; to swim; to be buoyed up.

Floating :: Floating (a.) Buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a wreck; floating motes in the air..

Float :: Float (v. i.) Anything used to buoy up whatever is liable to sink; an inflated bag or pillow used by persons learning to swim; a life preserver.

Buoy :: Buoy (v. t.) To support or sustain; to preserve from sinking into ruin or despondency.

Ligan :: Ligan (n.) Goods sunk in the sea, with a buoy attached in order that they may be found again. See Jetsam and Flotsam..

Life-preserver :: Life-preserver (n.) An apparatus, made in very various forms, and of various materials, for saving one from drowning by buoying up the body while in the water..

Air Jacket :: Air jacket () A jacket having air-tight cells, or cavities which can be filled with air, to render persons buoyant in swimming..

Waft :: Waft (v. t.) To cause to float; to keep from sinking; to buoy.

Montgolfier :: Montgolfier (n.) A balloon which ascends by the buoyancy of air heated by a fire; a fire balloon; -- so called from two brothers, Stephen and Joseph Montgolfier, of France, who first constructed and sent up a fire balloon..

Lanyard :: Lanyard (n.) A short piece of rope or line for fastening something in ships; as, the lanyards of the gun ports, of the buoy, and the like; esp., pieces passing through the dead-eyes, and used to extend shrouds, stays, etc..

Jetson :: "Jetson (n.) Goods which sink when cast into the sea, and remain under water; -- distinguished from flotsam, goods which float, and ligan, goods which are sunk attached to a buoy..

Buoyant :: Buoyant (v. t. & i.) Bearing up, as a fluid; sustaining another body by being specifically heavier..

Buoyancy :: Buoyancy (n.) Cheerfulness; vivacity; liveliness; sprightliness; -- the opposite of heaviness; as, buoyancy of spirits..

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